• kalkulat@lemmy.worldEnglish
    5 hours

    Hmmm. Maybe it turned into a tax haven … like neighboring state South Dakota, mome of Kristi Noem.

    Or maybe it’s: no state income tax. Or a maximum property tax of 2% (city + county). No capital gains, estate, or gift taxes.

    Or maybe the 77% Republicans. Or the death penalty.

  • ZoteTheMighty@lemmy.zipEnglish
    24 hours

    You won’t meet them there. They have a house, register it as their home state for tax reasons, the travel to states they actually want to be in. They may take a 2-week summer vacation to the house, but it’s not like there are millionaire communes where everyone at the local coffee shop is ultra wealthy.

    • chaogomu@lemmy.worldEnglish
      23 hours

      There are in Jackson, but only during tourist season.

      As a note, you’ll often see or hear it called Jackson Hole, that’s the valley just south of the city of Jackson.

      • RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.worldEnglish
        23 hours

        An incredibly beautiful area. Used to go there as a kid 30+ years ago. It was a relative backwater, not super popular except as a stop for people visiting the Tetons.

        Full of hundred-millionaires now. Like all the spaces taken over in Montana by the wealthy, or the mountain towns in Colorado like Aspen and Breckenridge. Commoners can fuck off.

          • RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.worldEnglish
            21 hours

            The wealthy? Not sure what you’re alluding to, but you’d have to add a lot of other places to the list the wealthy have priced normal people out of. Everything from Texas ranches to the castles on Long Island.

    • tal@lemmy.todayEnglish
      22 hours

      millionaire communes

      It’s not as exotic a status as it once was. About ten percent of America is composed of millionaires.

      https://apnews.com/article/wealth-retirement-millionaire-stocks-homes-inflation-8bc8bf04552feac2625afd6752faa29e

      Inflation, ballooning home values and a decades-long push into stock markets by average investors have lifted millions into millionairehood. A June report from Swiss bank UBS found about one-tenth of American adults are members of the seven-digit club, with 1,000 freshly minted millionaires added daily last year.

  • BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.todayEnglish
    24 hours

    Sounds like if we nuke Jackson Hole during the big vacation season, we could solve a lot of America’s problems.

    • Miles O'Brien@startrek.websiteEnglish
      23 hours

      I’m not a fan of nukes.

      I say we get about 1,000 people, some bulldozers, and then squish everything into one big pile in the middle. That should be enough, but we can always run over it a few times with a steamroller for good measure.

      Call it “Mt. Capitalism” or maybe “Mt. Inheritance” and leave it as a warning.

  • acme401@lemmy.world
    English
    1 day

    I don’t want to meet any more wealthy people, and I certainly do not want to go to Wyoming.

    • atomicbocks@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      20 hours

      My parents used to live in Fayetteville, the house they sold 13 years ago for $250k is currently worth $750k and the houses on either side have been bulldozed into combined lots for mini-mansions. It’s nuts out there.

    • discocactus@lemmy.worldEnglish
      19 hours

      I have it on good authority that it was actually a 20 (maybe less!) yo hooker that shot his buddy. Cheney took the fall cause he knew he’d get away with it and didn’t want the bad press (seems like overkill now but…). Friend used the same guide service.

  • Archer@lemmy.worldEnglish
    1 day

    Well yeah, you can pay very cheaply for people to keep the poors in line